Photobook

If you are lucky enough to have photographs of our ancestors we can turn them into a photobook, with a short history of each person. These make excellent gifts for family members, and a re relatively easy to produce. Charts can also be incorporated into the story.

This is an example of a photobook I did a few years ago for my own family on Snapfish. It has a linen cover with a cutout to reveal the photo on the first page – in this case my grandmother Amy Stewart, my great-grandmother Sarah Louisa Craig Stewart nee Lowe, and great-great-grandmother Margaret Lowe nee Craig. I know I am so lucky to have a photo of three generations of my direct female line in one photo and I put it in pride of place.

For a book of this kind it is necessary to have a bare minimum of information about each person in the tree for the chart and to tell a little story under the photographs. The main focus is on the photographs.

These examples show a few different page layouts. The pages can be printed as PDFs to create ‘virtual photo albums’.

I am Carole Riley of Sydney, Australia and this is my genealogy research business. I can help you to find out who your Australian ancestors are and I can usually trace them back to their country of origin. I can also help you find out their stories and mysteries - who they were, what they did for a living, where they lived and died.

I am the author of Land Research for Family Historians in Australia and New Zealand (2012), Evernote for Family Historians (2015), and Social Media for Family Historians (2010 and 2012). I am a past Vice President of the Society of Australian Genealogists and former editor of their journal, Descent. I am also a past Director of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Read More…